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Admin Generator It's RAD baby!

Admin Generator It's RAD baby! Rapid Application Development

Who am I, and what do I do?  Ian P. Christian (aka. pookey)  Coding PHP for about 8 years  Work for VoIP.co.uk  Involved with symfony and Doctrine  My website: http://pookey.co.uk

About this presentation  Based on sf1.0  CRUD  Admin Generator  sfExtJsThemePlugin  Questions and maybe some answers

Why Bother?! Doing it yourself is easy! The admin generator has a learning curve The admin generator is slow

Reasons to use it  Well documented  Well Tested  Reduced time to market  Because it's cool!

Welcome to the Farm  We have Farms  A Farm can contain many Barns  We have Animals  A Barn can contain Many Animals  Animals can by in many Barns

Assumptions  You have sf1.0 or sf1.1 installed  You have a project configured  You have a 'backend' application  You have configured your database.yml  You're using Propel 1.2

CRUD: Lets make a farm! module application model

Show me the code!

What about templates?

That's useless! But... I can change my modelz? Sorry Spoon Cat, no! If you want that, you'll have to keep listening!

A better CRUD module application model

The generated CRUD Edit/Create/Delete List View

The generated CRUD action WTF? Where's the code!!

The real code cache/backend/prod/modules/autoFarm/actions/actions.class.php

generator.yml

Wow, how cool! Lolz, that's cool!! What else can symfony do to help me work less?

init-admin module application model

The generated module

generator.yml  generator.yml is the heart of the admin generator  Lots of options, too many to cover here

Validation (yes,the vim highlighting of YAML isn't perfect!)

The error

What does a cow look like?  Add 'picture' to the schema.yml  Regenerate the model  We only need to change the generator.yml and add validation

Updated validation

Updated generator.yml

What it looks like

Improving our list

Improving our list apps/backend/modules/animal/config/generator.yml

Improving our list apps/backend/modules/animal/templates/_picture.php

The improved list

Relationships

Adding a Barn

Adding a barn What is '1'?!

Improved Barn

Many-to-Many

Many-to-many

Improving our Animal Form apps/backend/modules/animal/config/generator.yml apps/backend/modules/animal/templates/_legs.php.html

Improving our Animal Form apps/backend/modules/animal/actions/actions.class.php

Improving our Animal Form

Filtering

Filtering

Advanced Filtering apps/backend/modules/animal/config/generator.yml apps/backend/modules/animal/templates/_num_legs.php

Advanced Filtering

Adding Animals to the Barn List

Specifying a Peer Method

What else can it do?  Integration with credentials  I18N is possible  Rich text editor  Rich date editor

sfExtJsThemePlugin  Contains: Generator + Theme  View ( js ) requests data ( json ) at the user  More interactive user interface  Designed to create web-applications  Capable of:  Lazy loads views (edit/list/filter-panels)  Packing and minifying automatically

The Future!  New Form API – easier to extend  Propel & Doctrine support  Themable  I18N  Better upload  http://trac.symfony-project.org/ wiki/SprintSymfony12AdminGenerator

Questions?  Thanks to...some people....